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animal to be suffering with a compound and comminuted fractun 
of the fore arm, both bones being broken. An unfavorable prog 
nosis was given. He was, however, by the consent of Mr. Conk 
lin, Superintendant of the Central Park Menagera, allowed to bcj 
transported to New York to consider the propriety of treatment 
This was evidently useless. No matter how quiet the anima 
might have been kept, reduction was impossible, application o: 
splints impracticable, the leg was swollen and sensitive, the ex 
ternal wound through which the bones protruded was discharging 
a thin sanious pus very offensive, which, attracting swarms of 
flies, added much to the animal’s suffering, and in the presence of 
all these conditions it was decided to destroy him, and for tlial 
purpose he was led out of his cage, secured by chains, and four 
rifle balls discharged into that portion of his cranium situated be 
hind the base of the ear. 
The post mortem appearances of the bones of the leg were as 
follows: The ulna (the largest bone in the fore arm in the ele¬ 
phant) was fractured transversely across its lower third, about 
five inches above the articulation. The radius presented a com¬ 
minuted fracture, also of its lower third, having been broken into 
several pieces. Several large abscesses were found around the 
seat of the fracture, and when opened were observed to communi¬ 
cate directly with the fractured end of the bones, which were con¬ 
siderably necrosed and rapidly undergoing disintegration. The 
large tendons passing over this portion of the leg were nearly all 
softened, and some were seen partially separated from their bony 
attachments. 
EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY. 
ON THE TRANSMISSIBILITY OF TUBERCULOSIS THROUGH FOOD, 
AND UPON THE ATTENUATION OF THE PATHOGENIC ACTION 
OF THE BACILLI OF TUBERCULOSIS BY PUTREFACTION. 
By Fisher.* 
Fisher has experimented on rabbits which were kept isolated 
in cages, under the best hygienic conditions and which at the 
beginning of the experiments were in perfect health. They were 
* Archiv fur experimentelle Pathologie and Pharmak. 
